{"id":46948,"date":"2022-11-02T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/smuggler-arrested-with-bales-of-used-clothes-in-nyagatare\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:37:20","slug":"smuggler-arrested-with-bales-of-used-clothes-in-nyagatare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/smuggler-arrested-with-bales-of-used-clothes-in-nyagatare\/","title":{"rendered":"Smuggler arrested with bales of used clothes in Nyagatare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nisingizwe had smuggled the three bales from the neighbouring Uganda through a porous border point, according to Superintendent of Police (SP) Hamdun Twizeyimana, the Police spokesperson for the Eastern region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bales were recovered from Nisingizwe&#8217;s garden in Rwimiyaga at about 8:30p.m, where she hid them after sneaking them into Rwanda,&#8221; said SP Twizeyimana.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the used clothes were sneaked into Rwanda the previous night as reported by area residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Residents, who witnessed the acts of smuggling and fraud that night, called the Police. She hid them in a sorghum plantation in the backyard of her house in Rwimiyaga Village, where they were recovered and the suspect taken into custody,&#8221; SP Twizeyimana said, adding that the goods were handed over to Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), Nyagatare branch.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the residents for the community policing act and urged them to maintain the spirit against smuggling and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>A taxpayer, who commits fraud, is also subject to an administrative fine of one hundred percent (100%) of the evaded tax and a likely imprisonment of between six months and two years. Seized smuggled goods are also auctioned.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45005 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/wanya.jpg\" alt=\"The smuggler has been arrested with bales of used clothes in Nyagatare. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A suspected smuggler identified as Maria Nisingizwe, 28, was on Monday, October 31, arrested by the Police in Nyagatare District with three bales of second-hand clothes.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46948"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46948"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}